Speaking this week on MSNBC alongside Democrat National Committee Tom Perez, with whom he has reportedly been touring the country in hopes of unifying Democrats, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders asserted that to win, the failing Democrat Party needs to open its doors to independents and other such outsiders.

Moreover, he made it clear to MSNBC host Chris Hayes that he himself was not a Democrat but rather an independent, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Two days later on CNN, the network’s “Inside Politics” panel played back Sanders’ statements … and then the panelists burst into laughter.

“If you were paying close attention, Chairman Perez was looking like, ‘Where’s the door? Energizing? Get me out of here,'” host John King rightfully noted.

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So much for unity, aye? It didn’t help that one of the fellows trying to unify the Democrat Party didn’t even consider himself to be a part of the party.

“It’s a fun moment and it’s good theater, but does it get at the fundamental problem of the party, that the guy who came really close in the primaries still does not consider himself a member of the Democratic Party?” King asked.

Here is the cold, hard truth: The Democrat Party is in a dreadfully fractured state, to the point that it’s not even clear who runs the party. While Perez serves as chair of the DNC, he has been repeatedly booed in the past few weeks.

Meanwhile, according to a recent Harvard Harris survey, Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician among Democrat voters, though he himself doesn’t even identify as a Dem.

You can’t make this up. The party is toast — burnt toast, to be exact — and no amount of sweet talking by Sanders, Perez, Waters or anyone else can hide it, let alone stop the rest of us from laughing at their much-deserved misery.